Muddy Waters - Johnny Cash

Mary, grab the baby, river’s rising

Muddy water taking back the land

Old frame house, she can’t take one more beating

It’s no use to stay and make a stand

Well, the morning light showed water in the valley

Daddy’s grave just went below the line

Things to save, you just can’t take them with you

The flood will swallow all you leave behind

Won’t be back to start all over

Because what I felt before is gone

Mary, take the child, river’s rising

Muddy water taking back my home

The road is gone, there’s just one way to leave here

Turn my back on what I’ve left below, oh

Shifting lands, broken farms around me

Muddy waters changing all I know

Hard to say just what I’m losing

I’ve never felt so all alone

Mary, take the child, river’s rising

Muddy water taking back my home